Cool, I didn't know this about mithril.

Cool! But i just wonder...i would preffer to learn latin or french than any elvish language, i mean, Who in the world will understand you?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Runescape takes many things from other games and movies :roll:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yah, there has been a few other topics related to this.

 

the light mithril armour is directly from LOTR

 

 

 

mithril as far as im aware isnt a idea made from LOTR mithril has been named from alot of places one is FF2 which has mithril

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Actually, nobody made it up. Mithril is a real life mineral. So is adamite.

Cool! But i just wonder...i would preffer to learn latin or french than any elvish language, i mean, Who in the world will understand you?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WEEEE MY 200 MESSAGE! UNICORN HORN!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Only you, and the friends who care to learn it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Which can be very, very useful. :twisted:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then again, you might have heard the stories about American Star Trek fans who go to other countries, can't find anyone who speaks English, but DO find people who speak Klingon...who's to say the same couldn't happen for Elvish?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And for all those who are stating their opinion on where mithril and adamantite comes from, I'm only saying this once. Please first read the sources I provided on page 1, and then provide counter-sources to support your theory! It's no use stating a "fact" if you can't back it up! (I have learned that the hard way. :-w )

the light mithril armour is directly from LOTR

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ya you beat me to that one.

There is almost no such thing as a completely original idea. Whenever fantasy is involved, you are likley to have orcs/elves/skeletons/magic/wizards etc involved somewhere. To suggest that Tolkein was the first to think up these ideas is pretty laughable. He got a lot of inspiration from Norse/Celtic mythology, and a lot of the names that feature in his books come directly from those stories.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FACT: Tolkein got the inspiration for LOTR in from Beowulf.

ugh im truly sickened by the amount of topics comparing runescape to other games and movies. jagex tends to use alot of ideas from other things please get use to it.

Tolkien is considered the father of fantasy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Every single fantasy game/book/comic/film is inevitably related in some way to his works about Middle-Earth (incidentally, not just LOTR).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tolkien himself based his works on many Nordic legends and medieval stories. As a professor of Middle-English literature/language, he had a very thorough knowledge of all Germanic medieval literature and a good knowledge of the Germanic languages. (He even proof-read the Dutch translation of LOTR.) Tolkien consciously wanted to revive that fine tradition of medieval literature with his work, secretly hoping that one day, his work would be as the medieval stories are to us now. And boy, has he achieved his goal!

 

The names, especially of the elf cities and kingdoms in Runescape seem like names right out of J. R. Tolkein's books, Isadorf, Crandor, to name a few.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All the names in LOTR are elvish, and clearly you don't speak Sindarin or Quenya (the two main dialects of Elvish). In them, Crandor means wander/stray land (very awkard phrasing, very rough translation, as the full word doesn't translate properly. Isadorf doesn't translate at all, in any .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The one language Viktor can't speak

Tolkien is considered the father of fantasy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Every single fantasy game/book/comic/film is inevitably related in some way to his works about Middle-Earth (incidentally, not just LOTR).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tolkien himself based his works on many Nordic legends and medieval stories. As a professor of Middle-English literature/language, he had a very thorough knowledge of all Germanic medieval literature and a good knowledge of the Germanic languages. (He even proof-read the Dutch translation of LOTR.) Tolkien consciously wanted to revive that fine tradition of medieval literature with his work, secretly hoping that one day, his work would be as the medieval stories are to us now. And boy, has he achieved his goal!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So does that mean Six Degrees to Tolkien would be a valid game to play for the fantasy genre? :wink: (For those of you who don't get it, it's a reference to the game Six Degrees to Kevin Bacon. The premise of the game is you can name any movie or movie star, and in six steps, or under, you can connect it back to Kevin Bacon. Example: Eddie Murphy. Eddie Murphy was the voice of Donkey in Shrek. John Lithgow was the voice of Lord Farquaad in Shrek. John Lithgow was in Footloose. And guess who starred in Footloose? Kevin Bacon!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seriously though, I would submit that CS Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia do not trace back to Tolkien. I don't remember who wrote which first, but I can't see anything in the Chronicles that go back to Middle-Earth.

 

 

 

Seriously though, I would submit that CS Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia do not trace back to Tolkien. I don't remember who wrote which first, but I can't see anything in the Chronicles that go back to Middle-Earth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Actually, they really influenced each other. They were very good friends (no wonder) and moved in the same circles. I'd say they wrote at about the same time, but the genealogy of both The Chronicles as LOTR is rather complicated. I remember once seeing the two laid next to each other on some site that researched the amount of influence they had on each other.

Almost everything fantasy-ish past 1957 is influenced by Lord of the rings, ntohing special there.

I did know that CS Lewis and Tolkien were tight. You know, now that you say that, I remember reading somewhere Lewis himself talking about the influence Tolkien had on his work. I'm not sure where that was...I'll have to go back through my resources and find it. Again, too, I know more about Lewis than Tolkien, so maybe there's somewhere Tolkien talks about Lewis' influence on him. It makes sense, though, that the Dynamic Duo would influence each other. Ok, consider my submission withdrawn.

You may not know this, but next to Cambridge, the home of Jagex towers, there is a small topwn called Barrows. :idea:

Lord_Gromit, are all the place-names in LOTR really Elvish? I would have thought at least the Dwarvish lands would have Dwarvish names.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well, they have names in both languages. Both Moria and Khazad-dum refer to the same place. But a lot more people will know Moria than Khazad-dum because it is Elvish, and so predominantly used.

Good point. Primary language for the win!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well, Elvish being one of the primary languages. The other being the Language of Men (aka English).

i have definitley noticed this... ive seen referances and othe things on the map that reflect this and as i am reading LOTR right now... yeah its kinda hard not to notice

they took kanderin from a medieval version of tristan and isolde

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

kanderin was tristan's brother-in-law because he married another isolde

How hard is it to spell Mithril? or Adamant? anyway, all games and books draw their ideas from either other games/books, or ancient lore. So the only original people in the world are the Norse, Romans, Greeks, ect..